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Just to clarify, I'm not the author, I'm doing fine. This blog is having quite a buzz in France/Belgium right now.

Many wonder if fake. Not much evidence pointing one way or the other.

Seems fake from day one. The tone, the Twitter account etc.

But I guess almost twenty year of Internet can make you a bit over-suspicious :)

I think you are completely reasonable. Exceptional claims requires exceptional proof, and this blog only has a claim and no proof. I don't see any reason to believe it.

OTOH, someone who has 30 days left to live has absolutely no motivation or need to prove the validity of his story to anyone.

One would think that if you are taking the time to write something like this in your last 30 days of life, you would do what you can so it wasn't just dismissed as fake since it would have meant that you have wasted some of the last time on Earth.

I can't think of any better circumstance than knowing your living days are a numbered few, to absolutely not give a damn about what other people think. There are many therapeutic reasons to write a blog/journal during this time that are not diminished by worrying about skeptics.

To be fair, "I have thirty days to live" is, unfortunately, hardly an exceptional claim.

Would you be upset if this was a fake ?

It's an interesting writing and life experience in any case !

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